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se )11 3 elf Da , a on )111 13 !e• mo k i 7,0 •- • Plerttr.;ll,l_ ING-01 7 17CE, Oct. 21, 1 S. ~ IECOIti Ie I IISSIOI'TERS rPICTU.9 LLING :h at „ 31 .4:1E5 7 ys Vl' do hereby give Notice, gee °ll Friday, the t'Oth Instant, they will be ready to re re ren( iers to writing (Sealed up), and treat for Three "iuraired Quarters af NEW PALE, and One Hundred of NEW CL OSE-DRIED AMBER MALT, to be Qnswerable to Samples (r!lnot less than One Quart each) to b e rrorluePd I,Frl trifle the Tenders; Thirty Tens r.f VireGINIA etix F TOB ACCO; and Thirty Tons of CHEESE , ; to be i-e !lee er;.•,l into his ,lleyesy's I'4:dual/mg Stores al Thrtfin.d' space of a Fortnight; and to be paid for by Bills 4 'a 7 !lable, w i thout interest, sixty days after date. •': ondition s ef the Contracts may be seen at the Seere- Offer.ffer. 7 . e garre will be had to any Tender in which the Price 4eli • tl be inserted in Words at length, or that shall not be .I , , z, ; re ' l to the B oard before One o'Clieeh on the said t e ,, 7 4 ; 11 ' '•le :301 /e',lnstettit ; nor unleas the Person who makes or tome Person on his behol,,attends, to answer • ‘" ealled cos% riCTI7 . -11 .1-I.VG-OFFICE, (kg. 13, 1818. E CO MMISSIONERS for VICTUALLIN G 111. TASTY FT Arreby give Notice, That :::: rriti "!l, the icd Instant, they ?rill be gaily to re ftte 'tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for Two Lnll.~a,r+l Sack if BisKET Eightti Thousand wvs.T.N.:D_TA RUM, , ri("'the strength of five per proof by Sikes's flydro-neter, and Fifty (1/. -1 ‘ - "SI N's " to be an;:timfabk to Samples s n two pounds weigh each), to be pro( t Ph„. l • 'tt~rt~ at to be delivered into Vs Majesty's Vie:ualli7 ik idford, in the space of one month, and to he pan I , lill ' la7able, without Interest, 1 . .?"/ dayS of/Er date. `:cindition.s of the Contracts 2nay be seen at the Seere- Ace. olua i rr4 r(l he had to any Tender in which the Prier C., / ,:' l2t 6C i nserted i n wor d s a t long•th, or that shall not ease '"r ''d to the hoard before One o'Clock on the said Fri 2iliuti4e 211 lostaV:t ; nor unless the Person who makes the Uk 'snore hers = on his bet`alf, attends, to as Llcer - call ed for. „, Pi c ' Pr7lr,r,/,‘-(7..0.-FirE, 0 . : . ! , 1 1 , 1814. 4 LfiNiG tit•co jimissio,",,Eks.,for V/L / v ,L 'Chat. • 114 a. .__,. 51 , 1 ,. 5 , NA ~, y d o hereby rive Notice, ~_.),. on e , 11. IL AroreiNer nest, 11 "”) " la I tret,l3, i, I "e'da?l, the 3 d o f -- , „ 1,1, and tri•at ,P,„,. rei7tive Tenders in writing (sealer!_,, _ 7 „„ OWN • '-:1 A -I te I landt,l Mille ni G°M)SI() N I ' " ."' l'. ILL" Imo , : 'not less thanforty-eight in( hes in tenth), 1 fr' Le Qt'4 ' 4l 'r , /15' ' ( o S'ample-s, of not lesc than five ham rer e 1 4 :,,:' eG:le‘" Po;:, t 1I1 be produ.ced wft . h. 1/er reiide a r t s Teen/err; ; ~b e de- , 44 ~,,, ' his nrrjesty's I 'ictualltng Stores 1 ,r,a,',14., therd l‘t 11 1 " , .; j''& P r , nortioits, between the 15th Decent it Pig. ti . i. ,l h nc,.., . 1:1"('' ' : (; ; : I : : ~,`,"' 1 2 1 i 4 : 14 _(-1 : )11'1 9 , 1 1 t.: r 41 1 : 1 1.1 N - 1 1 5 " ..7, F4 1 . (1 L N % 1 K C 1 ) 1 1: 11 T E I R I K A T Z :\ ;: 11:1:11.0":1; 1 if e screire (if the Stores e. , „ r ,„,. ,,,i . a l t ?, Le demindeel or - ' lo f I),Avem her next, to 6 "' Jor Ob e Year, from the 22, „ with the enet,.:l4.° ts"t‘tperable to 'Sainples to be proaucca t 4, " ollti • h l ' S 1 AL E of all the GRAINS that 'of may . e produced in finc:fl4i"P'' liretrhouse at Deptford, dartag- the space 7 4 -c:''''''. frtmi th e 3d of Decembtr next. tt,t iedi ii''ns of the Contracts may be seen at the Se -4 1 4 (i llite. t h e l'riee sl.01(11::""d will h e had in any Tender ~ , ter,, i , de/. °( l' i'itl,riert in Irurds at length i , n or wh tl i :a h t shall not " . '"(.1 1 , 4/ ", the 1.;,,„. rd 6, : fo re One o'Clock on the sa le.' less the Person kl,„ , 0 ' ' the art of November nerr; a"r "." . ~,,,,, , 4 ( ' 144 the Tenrier or some Person on Ins behalf, at , a" ?"''''''' lei . eh'/ '• 1„. , ,, .4 ~. ,en call( d tor. 4 ett ( fi l dcr far the Grains mu. n. also be accompanied by ~ to become C,,, a thenl.4lgo b y t coo responsibl e Persons engagia:, _or 11 4 a t 4 uii Party tenderin g , in the penal Sum of 2001. I ~... e Perf;. . . . , ,- ~ mcolce v M e Contract. est . ' l , , t „' - , -- -------....___ . ___ . „______ .- , itp s v. iiWr ,-(.I''PEEDII.Y AND PERFEC , Tl : y CURED, tt it I " A ll ; ANY SURGICAL OPERA L lON. . an I . 1) -.;')( i ll , Surgeon to the '' liat - rio; ) ~ ' l t t 1. hii,t,lshr-, fo r ' , the (' t iL '. ' " and S''''''' I ro • . • of Strictur e s," es. .. . ~,,..., ? 4 ri t ',,, .ut I.)\l{..\\, m,,i)it vr•lii) Bollfah's, l'A"..,', t iti,, 4 ,')nisi, ..•. r'' ''• • s a •exlrosive praetie, l 'i lt . 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In d a a l, y o very shortly, entirely . ‘'11 , 1 4 1ee.: 4 r 4; tile nee':ess"ctl;de;tittLlc' a u ' sc of a ' ny 'fruss or Bandage tti`fl'tvP,liv,e-4.liteiru,tltilo 13:: mad e at No..iii, Ilerner's•street, Oxford tr 41 4 4 ' -.lt v.'s cif L sfactury References of Cure cart , ,:\ i,, . nttendance from T,II till Four; and from Seven 1.44. it i‘ j!! the I.:veiling. l• ' 4 le e ,' Pufour lie 44 a regular Assortment nf '1'117.7 ttiti:,,lelt he its on with it euliar care, as it is unit( i I 4tltit to have ell -adapted 'fruss. T 4l, I 'IUN I x , ESTI NI All LE ORNA NI E i NT the 44 ' '''ll4ll '. '4 - If An t , 1 - % Frryti.llllV much injured by Fevers, . .. t4!'"l,-,•,'ety ~."'l', Travtiliii.,,, Cliate , e of Climate, Stud), ' r,'"4 l. • :i`c•---tli.",r if • •I ' • •t • 1 lilill oceakCion total Bald ucti'l' ""tY be •''(• t “ . I ' l l ' soon i '111111: that invaluable ~ .1. t'') , the i;l.••\[:7-',•.VI \ e i ' 4 . tr vf % i s i ..kit. 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(. by appominietit, by all l'esf..nitrs arid 1 1 liiii, f(),. itt,!,!tt:nlitzliclui. i:tii ope. and e 1 3.5,,t Te , I '''''' '''.ot - 7 ' d'' ) 1, or 11 . ,, wland's Dyc, 1• ROWLAND 41:il SON. • SOCIETY dt' ANTIQUAII.IF."; OF LONDON, Somerset-filace, Oct. 22, MP. NOTICE is hereby given, That the WEEKLY 1! .MEETINGS of THIS SOCIETY will be testnued oo TEWItsDAY EVENING, the Lill of November next, at the usual-hour. NICHOLAS CARLISLE, Secretary. PUBLICATIONS. LIAKEWILUS VIEWS IN ITALY. he Second Number of HAK LL's VI E % !TA LY, illn9trA tive Of Addison, Eustace, Forsyth. &r. engraved lry Landseer, George Cooke, &c. will be published on the Se cond of November. Printed fur .lotiN MottitAY, Alhemarle-street, London. No. W. will be published on the First of December. NORTH POLE. On the second of November will be publithed, In One Volume, Sm. with a Map, 1:;:s. IFISTORY of VOYAGES info the POLAR REGIONS ; undertaken chiefly for OR, purpose of diieuvering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage he ist-eel) the Atlantic and Pacific; from the earliest periods of scatidinarian Navigation, to the departure of the recent Ex peditions under the Orders of Captains Ross and Buchan. By JOHN BARROW, F.R.S. Printed for JoriN Mu It RAV, Albemarle-street, London. l ea (HY end lit'e 1 ter WY ill- if jOl7, ie• • ,•-•" _,-, ,;te r (7%4 i co',l 11 • Alt' ‘ , 4 ;s 64l' r $ ifte• of ~~ p . al~r ty6 co' f orris, , if -EV r• af' 4 ed for' d ,rs fiel°' of 000'. , ,et- 4: 3 ,•• :" .*.i. . . 1 : 6 0 • / 11 / /7 ;, _ „e - I \ T I-TDrutit 81'54.1/ TI-lITIISDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1818. LITERARY REVD EW. OBSERVATIONS introductory to a WORt. on ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY. By JOHN TitomsoN, M.A.S. andllate Pri vate Secretary to the Martinis of HAST 4 INGS, Governur- General of The English language has attained an elevated and enviable height among the languages of Europe. Its capacity for adaptation to science, its vigour in reasoning, anff flexibility in poetry and eloquence, prove its richness and extent. These are great effects from incidental causes, in which the love of letters had little or no participation. From a view of the history of our language, we are sur prised s‘ct much has been done toward its comple tion, and take pride iu the. possession of that which is at once so elegant, dignified, and com prehensive. As all human pursuits and acquire wents, trout their mutability, can scarcely admit pertectioo, whatever approaches nearest to sim plicity and truth should be received and cherish ed. it is not Mentions to reflect that our language is, perhaps, the least original of any in Europe, which leads inquiry to the different stores from whence it has been drawn, and to the gradations of its advancement. With the 'exception of the late Mr. Horne Tooke, much cannot be said to have been attempted in developing the radical and elementary parts of our speech. Lexicographers usually have satisfied themselves with excursions but little beyond what arc defined to be classical boundaries, and have paused where their labour might have begun to be useful to true Philology. We are led to these remarks by the present work, recently published, to the publicity of which we give our aid with pleasure, and in vite the critical attention of men to its analysis, who love to walk or wander in the labyrinth of oral communications, affinities-, and connections. This work professes to be no more titan intro ductory to another work, which has not yet ap peared ; we must, therefore, 'confine ourselves to what the author has given, which, in reality, is not so much an introduction to Etymology as it is etymological, and it creates an anxiety for the publication of that to which it is but a pre cursor. The object of these " Observations," and of the work to which they are introductory, is, we are told, to (race the probable origin, to mark adventitious changes, and to indicate the principal analogies of British words ; a task of no easy accomplish tnent. These British words, the author asserts, are derived from the Gothic and Celtic, chiefly through rite Anglo-Saxon and French dialects ; and, as we - ktlow the barbarism that pervaded the Anglo-Saxon and French dialects, it is not a cheering labour to force a road through these, to search for roots in languages still nrore remote, and not less barbarous. Discouraging as this would be to ordinary enquirers, and copious as must be the learning for any, the author does not assume that rank in literature which all will be 'ready to give him, who regard his simultane ous acquirements. Fume he considers as a hope less consequence, and pecuniary returns as less than nothing, ivhen balanced against many years of labour and expenditure. • It he look to neither fame nor profit, his impulse must be the love of letters, and of public good. I We avoid entering into critical examination on the general merits or imperfections of this little 'volume, I•eaving that to abler men ; yet we would 'acknowledge the gratification we have enjoyed from the perusal of its diversified and novel matter. FOR THE SUN. i3EAUTIES OF ‘SHAKSPEAR, It is not the least remarkable in this great minded man, that he makes his characters speak and act peculiar to their situation. He opens all tie passions, and, like Homer, describes them as if we heard and saw them. This is a knowledge •df the heart which exceeds all we ever read be fore. In my former 1 gave general. instances which bear internal evidence of this indisputable trut h. I n th e words of Horace, to make us feel, he first felt himself—Si-me vis flere dolendum est ad primum. Who can pass over the following with out emotion ; they arrest attention, and bid it stop " Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the tint motion, all the interi►n is Like a phantasma or an hideous dream ; The genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council, and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection."—,Julius Cfr.rar. " 'inset) proved that with devation's visage, And pions action, we do sugar u'►rr The devil himself."—flankt. "The woiid is still deceived with ornament; In Lay. what plea so minted and corrupt, But being seasuri'd with a gracious voice (Thsei yes the ►ihew of 'evil. Religion What danuo:d error, lint some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text. Iliding the grossness with fair ornament; There is no voice• so simple but assumes Souse mark of virtue on its outward port."—Mer..j . Yen. '' What stronger hreast-plate than a 'heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that bath his quarrel just, And he but naked, tho' lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted." Hen. YI. p. 2. e historical part, relating to language, con tained in these " Observations," is, undoubtedly, instructive and amusing, although the subject admits of nothing to enliven the fancy, and but little to warm the mind. In pursuit of Etymology we perpetually labour, only at last to arrive at a barrier, where our career is at an end, and where even imagination closes. We call a language ori ginal when we know not of any antecedent, and while that language may..have been, at best. but a distorted image and oorrupt modification of on other more deep in anti9uity, which was itself an imperfect offspring of one still more remote. Yet tart her we cannot proceed, and we must he satisfied with calling that the root which might have been no better than a ramification front the parent stock. To turn this to some advantage is all that can he hoped for, and this our author seems to have done: he has developed, with mo dest address, the relations of many languages, and drawn ages closer together, between which time had interposed obscurity, and almost precluded recognition. "The first bringer of unwelcomed news Hat h but a loosing other ; and his tongue Sonnds ever after as a sullen bell, Itcmembeed tolling a departed friend."—lrm " I'd rather he a kitten, and 'cry mew, Than one of these same.liallad-monger c ; I'd rather hear ft brazen candlestick turn'd, Or a ilrY'ci wheel grote on the axletree, And that would nothing set my teeth an edge ; Nothing so flinch as minein; poetry ; "Tis like the force gait of a. shnfiting " Fling away ambition ! By that sin angels fell ; how can roan then, The image of his Maher, hope to win by it' Love t hyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee, Corruption wins not more tlnpi honesty, Still in thy hand carry gentle vv2ce, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not." Henry 1711. "Thi% is the state of man ; to-day he putted) forth The tender leave; of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And hears his blitshing honours thick upon hint; The third day conies x frost, a tiimaine frost, And nips the rout of all his greatness."—lbiL " are such stuff as dreamt are made of, And our little life is rounded by asleep." " Welcome ever smiles ; and farewell goes out Sighing. The end crowns all, and that old cmumon Arbitrator Time, will one day end it."*--Troil. Cressid. " How sw eet the moon-light sleeps upon that bank." Me - Murat of' rettice. " They are its sick that surfeit with too mu c h, As they that starve with nothing."—?'roil. • " Ile jests at scars who never felt a wound."—Romeo. " Prosperity is the bind of love."--JPixtrr' s • Tale. " Dirt for your words, they'rob the bylila 'bees Wall their swectites4, and leave them hooeviess" Cipsnr. TASTE, go be eozitinued) We do not offer extracts from the " Observa tions,” as we would not appear to mark prefe rences, while the whole emphatically demands at tention. Had scholars like the author appealed even every hundred years, we should now be en abled to travel through antiquity with ease and certainty, and the liyerogliphic and the °Otani would be legible and intelligent. Cnitoms, man ners, habits, mysteries, sports, and superstition would no longer exercise the fancy or subtlety of antiquaries, and certainty woold preside where ingenuity too often only generates doubt. hough we give no extracts, %A re would direct the general reader to the four list pages, where he will find awnsement curiously blendr-d with information. We would not, however, conceal that an et ror, in our opinion, pervades the whole of this little volume, an error of which the mass of writer* are but too little guilty; namely, a too great coin -laession of natter; which, from whatever cause it may have a risen, calls for an excess of atten tion in the reader. The work most command ninny eaitions ; and hence we venture to orf:1 this temark to the ingeoious author, in hope to facilitate general no:tiling; we think we perceive itt the cwalpits uf this work, 4114 A: sty • x ;, 4-•< 1.. • '.4411 64 '-);" ;4171031:Jc [PRICE SEVENPENCF: in the author, or, perhaps, an appreheosiol or fear of an opposite kind, and a desire to avoid superfluous display of words, while he cw fines himself to treat of words. This motive nay ba good, but condensity is too prevalent, and cou lequctitly imbeneficial. .Here are planted nunte rfnis exotics, in too confined a space, by %%hich their best display, though not quite concealed, is injured ; their t4rtieric characters are not so cvi. dent as if they were more separated and distinct, and their beauties are necessarily of leis easy access. FOR THE SUN. THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. Ma. EntToa,—l observe in your agreeable ;1 lii cellauy Tire SUN, that you entertain tears for the safety of the Established Church, even as it they were for the ark of Israel; and that you offer it as a receptacle for the effusions of its Clergy. I ad mire your motive, which is loyal and patriotic, but do not accord with your appnbension of its danger. Built as it is upon a rock, abundant in. revenue, and extensive in patronage, pure in its hierarchy, and protected by the State, mild in its doctrine, and tolerant to all, rearing its mi:red. front beneath the Crown, I think that all the evil spirits in the infernal regions, with Papists and Protestant dissenters huddled together in an army Of martyrs cannot prevail against it. I know that its tolerance has occasioned all sorts of Sectaries, who have separated from it, to distract end terrify the ignorant, which is their delight. and draw them to their own enclosures. This may be attributed to its indulgence, but never can be a reproach to its liherality, though unhappily :be more it has shewn it to its enemies, the mote lutve they encteased, like vipers biting the bosom that cherishes them. But what is their obj ct ?-- Power to do mischief! It is not religion ; for whether the people be Jews or Gentiles, Matto metans or Barbarians, is no concern with I' eat. h is what they call political liberty, meaning a liberty to do as they in their overweening super snfliciency please, that they contend for, end iii the end to overturn the Government iu Chutels and State; then to set up a model of their own for the pretended salvation of each, or., in triter words, the total abolition of both. In this tem per I compare them to venomous insec:s, who die by the emission of, their own poison ; and there fore the snore they are left to themselves, the weaker they will grow. According to the pro verb, give them rope enough, and they will en tangle themselves, become suicides, or, wanting courage, die of a lingering mortification, tinpi kit and forgotten. Wiry then sound an alarm that the Church is in danger ? I verily believe it is not, and that it is its own defence against the ll , vil and all his friends. It is certainly kind in you to offer your columns for the use of the national Clergy, but Ido not see what good it will do. It may provide you Correspondents from all the counties in the kingdom, to the exclusion of others, who, to fill up an idle hour otter dinner, or before they smoke their pipes, would embody their thoughts on paper, in support of their own Itinciions, and thence weary you with their multiplication. THE SUN WOuld then indeed be the Parson's Journal, to which I should have no objection ; if it contained an Essay front any of them, once in a month. I am, your Friend, and a Friend to Tna SUN, which tt Laity of my acquaintance calls iiv Evening Pianfolilet, TERILE FILIUS. :;/ " Extract of a Letter, dated Cape Henry, Sept. 6:—" A most serious accident has happened to Citadel Henry, that magnificent btructitre havHg been struck by lightning, and set on fire, to the utter destruction of many of its buddings, they with loss Of stores and arnmiinitoin. This place is the King's st:ong-hold, and dernitr resort iu case of invasion, and where all his treisure is Boarded ; he has never 1 Est sight of its tat! r ,ce ment for the last 12 years ; it is better known by the former name of Fort Terrier. Many lives were lost, and among others the Queen's brother perished in the flames. Every person wears black crape, and r.ll the women arc ordered to attend mass every day, for 14 days, barefooted, and icy white dresses. It is suprosed that the new crops will suffer much by the aff,ir, as every man ca pable of carrying stone or lime is nut into requi sition, in order to rebuild the fortress. The King' has taken up his quarters there, and will not quit it till finished." On Thursday se'nnight a Gentleman from the country left a house in the High -street, Perth, about I I o'clock at night, With ftc of returning to his lodgings ; but basing inistakilk his way, he only discovered he ...a, of the right direction, by finding himself, all of a slid den, snuggling in the river. Atter an ineffectual attempt to regain the bank, he had sufficient pie.. senre of mind to throw himself upon his back, and allow himself to be carried gently down the •ttem, while he called out lustily for assistance. In this very critical and dangerous situation be floated down the river (which was a good deal, flooded at the time), till he cattle Opposite to the New Shore, where his cries roused a dog on board of a lighter, in which were twomen heldw in bed. Awakened by the balking of the animal, the men immediately got upon deck, awl made all haste with a boat to tue,place from which toe cries of distress proceeded, and, fortunately tor th e ,ir inger , Et-idled it in time to sa‘e his He sv.is ininiedi.ttely conveyed on board the lighter, where he tentained for the night. Next muroii:g he was so far recovered as to be able to return to his friends in town, and give them an iccuunt of his perilous adventure.---( Edinburi4 !Julian) MISS A. M. PORTER'S NEW NOVEL On Thursday the sth of November will be published, in 3 Volumes I2ioo. T HE FAST of ST. MAGDALEN. A Novel. By Nlis ANNA MARIA PORTER. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brun, Ltincion. Of whom may had, by the same Author, I.. The Knight of St. John, Third Edition, 3 Vols. 11. Is. boards. 2. Recluse of Norway, 4 vols. 11. 4s. 3. lionzarian Brothers, 3d Edit. 3 vols. 165. - 6 d. 4. Don Sebastian, 3 Vols. 11. Is. SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS. 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